Change detection in an attended face depends on the expectation of the observer

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-74

  Austen, Erin L ^a   Enns, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change detection; Divided attention; Focused attention; Human face processing; Observer expectation; Perception; Visual representation; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038175230     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.1.7     Document Type: Article

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